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can not load system-site-packages when using a venv ipykernel

See original GitHub issue

Environment data

VS Code version: 1.67.1
Jupyter Extension version (available under the Extensions sidebar): v2022.4.1011282140
Python Extension version (available under the Extensions sidebar): v2022.6.1
OS (Windows | Mac | Linux distro) and version: Windows 19044.1645
Python and/or Anaconda version: 3.8.10
Type of virtual environment used (N/A | venv | virtualenv | conda | …): venv
Jupyter server running: Local

Expected behaviour

fail to import a module installed in %userprofile% in *.ipynb files but it works in *.py files.

I have set ‘include-system-site-packages = true’ in pyvenv.cfg.

Actual behaviour

failed with ModuleNotFoundError

Steps to reproduce:

create a virtual enviroment. then install ipykernel.
import a module installed in %userprofile% in *.ipynb files.
run a cell.

Logs

Output for Jupyter in the Output panel (View→Output, change the drop-down the upper-right of the Output panel to Jupyter)

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Issue Analytics

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Created a year ago
Comments:10 (9 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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DonJayamannecommented, May 11, 2022

his was because conda environments were picking up the wrong stuff?

Sorry for not explaining that, yes thats correct. We found that it completely messes up things. And decided not to add it. This is the first time we’ve had a user complain about this, seems legitimate though. I guess we could add this back if its a non-conda and virtual environment. Then again there are a number of different virtual environments, are poetry considered virtual? We need to be careful in adding them, else we could end up adding them even for environments that would never get them regardless.

I’d suggest just adding this back only for virtual environments (venv, virtualenv, virtualenvwrapper, etc). We used to have startup code that did this, which was later removed.

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rchiodocommented, May 11, 2022

Thanks for the bug.

Can you print out the sys.path in a notebook and the sys.path in a python terminal and show the difference here?

We should be picking up the pyvenv.cfg settings so I’d like to see what the difference is.

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